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Why Is Defeating the AAP So Important for Modi?

07.02.2025 8

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Why Narendra Modi Fears the AAP's Delhi Model

16.01.2025 9

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The One Mistake Manmohan Singh Made on the Economic Front Cost Him — and the Congress — Dearly

In the midst of the paeans showered on Manmohan Singh after his death there has been one dissenting note. This has been struck by the Radical...

01.01.2025 10

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The Victimisation of Yasin Malik: The Role of Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, aka Latram

This article is the second in a two-part series on the Union government’s pursuit for the death penalty for Yasin Malik. Read the first here. In...

14.12.2024 5

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The Controversial Pursuit of a Death Sentence for Yasin Malik

The high voter turnout in the September and October legislative assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir demonstrated that, despite five years of...

09.12.2024 2

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The Controversial Pursuit of a Death Sentence for Yasin Malik

The high voter turnout in the September and October legislative assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir demonstrated that, despite five years of...

09.12.2024 4

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The Modi-Shah Game in Kashmir Is to Split Opposition Vote and Pave Way for BJP to Form Government

Kashmir has one chance to win back the autonomy that it had enjoyed under Article 370 of the constitution. With the first phase of voting for the...

23.09.2024 3

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The NC and the Congress's Hubris Has Put Them – and All of Kashmir – in a Risky Place

This is the second of a two-part series by the author on Kashmir. Read the first here. Srinagar: If the Congress had returned to power in 2014...

07.09.2024 4

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Why Kashmiri Political Parties Cannot Fight Each Other

When announcing the dates for Jammu and Kashmir’s assembly elections, chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar told The Indian Express,  “We would...

22.08.2024 2

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Instead of Asking How Long Modi's Government Will Last, INDIA Needs to Get Its Act Together

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s failure to win an absolute majority of the seats in the Lok Sabha, and Narendra Modi’s refusal, so far, to descend...

22.07.2024 2

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